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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 67, 13 May 1870, Page 3

t Sectarian Oxen.—A minister tra- | Yelling along a Texas road met a strarger driving his waggon, which was d awn by four oxen. As the minister approached, he heard the driver say—- " Get up, Presbyterian ! Gee, Camp. fbelhte! Haw, Baptist! What are : you doing, Methodist ?" The minister, I struck with the singularity of such I names being given to oxen, remarked : i "Stranger, you have strange names for your oxen, and I wish to know why you have such names given to them ?'• The driver replied: "I call that lead ox in front Presbyterian, because he is 'true blue, and never fails'. He believe* rili pulling through every difficult place, persevering to the end; and then ho vknows more than all the rest. The ono by his side I call Campbellite; he does; V W w ell when you let him go his own way, Until _he sees water, and then all ithe world would, not keep "him out of it, and there he stands as if his jourt ney had ended. This off ox is a real Baptist, for he is all the time after water, but is constantly looking on-one side and then on the other, and at every. thing that comes near him. The other, which I call Methodist, makes a great noise and a great ado, and you would •think he was pulling all creation, but he don-'t pull a pound." The Two-Headed Girl—Mark Tram says:—" The wonderful two-headed-girl is still on exhibition in New England. She sings duetts by herself. She has a great advantage over the rest of her sex, for she has never to stop talking to eat, and when she is not eating she keeps both tongues going at once. She has a lover, and the lover is in a. quandary, because atone and the safcie moment she accepted him with one mouth and refused him at the same time with the other. He wishes to sue for a breach of promise, but thw is a hopeless experiment, because only half of the girl has been guilty of the breach. This girl has two heads, four arms and four heads, but only due body, and.ahe (or they) is (or are) 17 years old.. Now,is she her own sister ? Is she twins ? or, having but one body, and consequently but one heart, is she strictly but one person ? If the aboveI named young man marries her, will ho ibe guilty of bigamy ? The double girl has only one name, and passes for ono . girl; but when she talks back and forth with herself with her two mouths is she soliloquising ? Does she.expect to have one vote or two ? Has she the same opinion as herself on all subjects, or does she differ sometimes ? Just at this point we feel compelled to drop this investigation, for ;t is rather too tangled for us. °